The cyber risk hiding in plain sight
For all the attention given to sophisticated cyber threats and zero-day vulnerabilities, most organizations are overlooking a far more immediate danger: the risks they already know about – but haven’t fixed.
President of Technology and Services at Arctic Wolf.
Recent research paints a sobering picture of enterprise security today. Across more than 800,000 IT assets analyzed, one in three lacks at least one critical security control. Nearly one in five is running end-of-life software and 17% sit entirely outside traditional vulnerability management tools.
In other words, the modern attack surface is not just expanding – it is becoming increasingly fragmented, poorly understood and difficult to control.
Breaches built on the basics
One of the most concerning recent developments is how little attackers need to innovate. Every one of the top 10 most frequently exploited vulnerabilities in recent incident response cases had already been patched by vendors – often months earlier.
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